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A Walk-In Center for People Facing Mental Health Crises Is …

WEBUrgent care for the mind — that's the idea behind a new proposal to improve mental health care in the Northeast Kingdom. A nonprofit mental health agency in the …

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Vermont's Aging Population Is Transforming the State Seven Days

WEBThe goal: boost Vermont's population by some 200,000 by 2035, just over a decade away. That's a tall order for a state whose population has grown by less than …

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A Promising but Controversial New Depression Treatment Is Now …

WEBA primary care doctor at the University of Vermont Health Network will soon start treating depression with a mind-altering drug that's shown promise in helping …

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Rep. Anne Donahue Is Determined to Find Out Where Patients of …

WEBShe's long stood up for people with mental illness. After undergoing electroconvulsive therapy several times in the 1990s, Donahue worked to regulate …

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Garnet Health to Close, Citing Financial Difficulties

WEBUpdated at 1:09 p.m. Garnet Health, a Chittenden County ambulance service that has played a major role in Vermont's COVID-19 testing and vaccination …

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New Burlington Health Clinic Will Serve People Struggling With …

WEBA new walk-in health clinic will open early next year in downtown Burlington to treat patients hooked on the increasingly dangerous drugs available in the city.

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Taking Care: Community Nurses Help Fill Vermont's Health Care …

WEBRats had invaded the kitchen of an elderly woman's home in rural Sharon by the time Dena Wilkie first visited two years ago. A family member had asked Wilkie, the …

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Vermont Health Care Workers Are Grappling With Unprecedented …

WEBStaff members said they know several colleagues who have left the hospital in the past few years because of the violence. One is a psychiatric nurse named …

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From Mental Health to Recovery, From Street Outreach to Family …

WEBW hen Kelly Deforge's youngest son was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at age 6, the principal of his public school told her, "We're taught to teach. We're not …

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Health Clinic Gets $500K to Set Up Primary Care Residency Program

WEBAwarded through the federal Teaching Health Center Planning and Development Program, the $495,000 for Lamoille Health Partners is intended to help …

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Front Line Stories of Vermont's Online Health Exchange

WEBNearly a year after Vermont Health Connect went live, the state's online insurance exchange still has a number of gaping operational holes into which plenty of …

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Health Inspectors Monitor the State's Kitchens, and the Public Can

WEBMost food establishments in Vermont score 80 points or higher on their inspections; those that score lower could get extra inspections. A score of 70 or below …

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New Companies Are Riding Vermont’s Health Tech Sector Boom

WEBVermont earned a pushpin on the global health technology industry map decades ago when homegrown entrepreneurs founded BioTek Instruments, the …

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Private Equity Group Drops Bid to Purchase Five Vermont Nursing …

WEBThe company has also operated Barre Gardens in Barre since 2017. The ailing Genesis agreed to sell five of its nine Vermont homes to a group of private …

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Vermont's Cannabis Nurse Hotline Answers Health Questions for …

WEBDolan, who also teaches an eight-hour, state-mandated course for dispensary workers, launched the hotline on October 1, 2022, the same day that …

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Bitter Pills Health + Fitness Seven Days Vermont's Independent …

WEBAs such, it’s more prone to abuse. Today, Suboxone is one of the most common street drugs in Vermont, and is regularly used and abused in the state’s …

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How UVM Health Network

WEBWhen Christine Werneke went on her first home visit to see a hospice patient in 2011, she expected it to be difficult — "I had a scary mental picture," she said. …

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A Montgomery Salt Cave Might Heal What Ails You

WEBThat said, a March 2016 statement by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America warned that halotherapy may not benefit asthma and allergy sufferers as much …

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Senior Olympian Flo Meiler Shares Her Secrets to Staying Fit

WEBFor the past 28 years, ever since her late best friend and training partner, Barbara Jordan, convinced Meiler to give senior games track and field a try, she has …

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